Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Talent won't be quiet, doesn't know how to be quiet. [...] It never shuts up. It'll wake you in the middle of your tiredest night, screaming, 'Use me, use me, use me! I'm tired of just sitting her! Use me, fuckhead, use me!'

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.